4 times the C 1 times the me

they call me a slang term for a highly attractive or desirable person or a luxuriously designed car (oc blog for calliope calamity critter culverts) - @eyenaku

[fairgroundguts]

calliope is not pronounced calliope its pronounced calliope no matter what arson nick says do not listen him its calliope not calliope

[dappermouth]

Forgetting the sea — detail from 'Cold Shore'

[lupinus-bicolor]

check out my meat shrine on neocities!!!!

⚠️⚠️ HEAVY WARNINGS FOR GORE, GUTS, VISCERA, ANATOMICAL MODELS, FLASHING IMAGES, AND REFERENCES TO DEATH⚠️⚠️

a little shrine for my favorite form of memento mori, the uncomfortable truth that we are all meatbags sloshing through life <3

[creaturedrawings]

freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah

[ratcandy]

we just keep naming bugs like this

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 465

by @weemadbeasties on instagram

[dappermouth]

There won’t be time to wake the others.

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 463

beautiful weevil sculptures by @konaya578 on instagram x

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 469 by @xanadu.macro on instagram

[crevicedwelling]

what you need today is a video of Curculio nut weevil taking off from my hand

[crevicedwelling]

a winged adult should be the default assumption for all insects other than silverfish and jumping bristletails! with the exception of those two groups, all other insects are in the Pterygota (the winged insects)—wings are a defining feature of most living insects.

I suppose with beetles it might be a bit tricky to tell since their wings are “hidden”, but really you see wings anytime you look at a beetle: their first pair, the elytra, cover their abdomens. plenty of beetles got rid of the second wings beneath (including some weevils) and plenty of beetles only rarely fly, but still most of them are volant!

weevils in particular contain many groups that are extremely agile in the air, and the reason I’ve got no photos to show for the wonderful conoderine weevils I saw in Costa Rica was because they would disappear in an instant as soon as I raised my camera. many even mimic flies, which is thought to tell birds and reptiles “anything with red ‘eyes’ and a gray stripy body flies too fast to eat”!

a fabulous example from Brazil:

(PDF) Evasive mimicry: Too beetle, or not too beetle?

PDF | Mimics are the protagonists of evolutionary plays occurring in ecological theaters. In these Darwinian tragicomedies, predators, preys

[crevicedwelling]

this is one of my favorite examples of mimicry, so bear with my excitement!!

there’s just so many fly mimic weevils out there, and some of them convergently evolved it, this one is an anthribid (a different family of weevil, distantly related to the rest here)

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-description-of-a-new-calyptrate-fly-mimicking-Perger-Guerra/0ec7bab0478b28fd9fe97dc29e20e9bd9dd4215e

two great videos of them in action. many mimics need to be seen in action; behavior completes a disguise! plenty of non-mimic weevils are already super twitchy and jittery, but you can tell these guys have a good reason to act just like the flies they resemble!

[sapphicinsatin]

(flirting with a girl) if you were a pile of gore you’d SO have maggots

[sapphicinsatin]

(flirting with a girl) if you were a pile of gore you’d SO have maggots

[sapphicinsatin]

(flirting with a girl) if you were a pile of gore you’d SO have maggots

[mpekamitzii]

Wee guys

[wumbologyandecology]

Insects that have a primary color of white, from the Montreal Insectarium

[lemonsweet]

Cleans myself cutely

[crevicedwelling]

Marina & a 5 month old baby on my hand. I wonder if they remembered each other